Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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